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PIN CLAO destroyer escort (1944/1959)

Pin Clao 1960

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
ปิ่นเกล้า [Pin Clao] (ex-Hemminger) 3, 1991- 413   Western Pipe & Steel, San Pedro, USA 8.5.1943 12.9.1943 30.5.1944 // 7.1959 in service (2019)

 

Displacement standard, t

1253

Displacement full, t

1602

Length, m

91.4 wl 93.3 oa

Breadth, m

11.2

Draught, m

3.20 full load

No of shafts

2

Machinery

4 General Motors diesel-generators, 2 electric motors

Power, h. p.

6000

Max speed, kts

21

Fuel, t

diesel oil 320

Endurance, nm(kts) 11500 (11)

Armament

3 x 1 - 76/50 Mk 22, 3 x 2 - 40/60 Mk 1, 6 x 1 - 20/70 Mk 10, 1 x 24 - 178 Hedgehog Mk 10 ASWRL, 8 DCT, 2 DCR (120)

Electronic equipment

SC-2, SPS-5, Mk 26, Mk 34 radars, SQS-11 sonar

Complement

186

Project history: Former USN Cannon class destroyer escort, transferred under MDAP.

Modernizations: 1966: - 6 x 1 - 20/70; + 2 x 3 - 324 TT, WLR-1 ECM suite

1991: - SC-2, SPS-5, Mk 26, Mk 34 radars; + SPS-6C, 2x SPS-21 radas

Naval service: Pin Clao serves as TS since 1991.

Pin Clao 1977

Pin Clao 1997

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